Saga Summary:
Hush Hush:
The series begins with Nora meeting Patch in her biology class. She finds herself drawn to him despite him initially irritating her and her friends preferring that she date their friend Elliot, who is later revealed to a pawn of the nephilim Jules. Patch saves Nora from death multiple times and even though Nora believes he is stalking her, she eventually gives in to her feelings for Patch after he reveals he is a fallen angel that is protecting her. Jules, also known by the name Chauncey Langeais, attempts to use Nora as a way to target Patch, but fails and is killed when Nora jumps off of a gym ceiling rafter and dies, severing the blood related tie between Nora and him. She is brought back by Patch, who then becomes her guardian angel.
Crescendo:
In Crescendo Nora finds that her relationship with Patch has hit a rough spot when he stops returning her calls and refuses to tell her he loves her in his car when she admits her love for him. She is hurt when she discovers that Patch has been standing outside of rival girl named Marcie's window. Patch explains he can't tell Nora he loves her because it would potentially send him to Hell. This prompts her to begin talking to Scott Parnell, an old friend and possible Nephilim, and use him to make Patch jealous. Nora becomes involved in a fight in the process and ends up firing Patch as her guardian angel. Through Scott she finds that a person called the Black Hand killed her father. Nora becomes more depressed as she sees Patch start a relationship with Marcie and believes him to have sent her a drugged apology letter. It's eventually revealed that Nora's mother had an affair with Marcie's father Hank, prompting Marcie's vendetta against her. She also finds that Patch is the Black Hand and that he's now Marcie's guardian angel.
Silence:
The book starts with Hank making a deal with Patch that if Hank returns Nora by the end of summer, Patch will relinquish his wings. Three months later Nora wakes up within a graveyard to discover that her mother is now dating Hank. She has no memory of Patch but has recurring visions of him. Along with Scott and a boy named Jev, Nora begins researching nephilim after her many flashbacks. In the process it's revealed that Jev is actually Patch and that Hank is the Black Hand. Nora eventually begins to regain her memories of Patch and Hank through flashback memories and is ultimately forced by Hank to make a choice between the deaths of herself and her mother or becoming a nephilim. Unwilling to cause her mother's death, Nora agrees and becomes immortal. Hank tries to send Patch to Hell using one of his feathers, but is stopped when Nora shoots him to death. The book ends with Patch revealing that he had the chance to become human, Nora discovering that she has been made Hank's heir and the leader of his group of nephilim, and that a war between fallen angels and nephilim is unavoidable.
Finale:
Nora and her fallen angel boyfriend Patch have had a pretty rocky relationship, and now they finally get to be together. But, now Nora has to deal with the fact that she is now the leader of the nephilim army,she has to deal with the raging war between them and the fallen angels. Nora and Patch are determined to do what it takes to finally just have a normal life together, but as time goes on, Nora has to figure out where her loyalties lie, with her own race of nephilim or with the Patch and the fallen angels. Nora and Patch devise a plan to bring the two sides to peace, but as time is ticking it's getting harder for Nora to decide what is the best. Nora has many nephil friends, including Scott and her new, sexy lieutenant Dante who are determined to help her become the leader she needs to be, but as Nora goes deeper into the world of her new race she finds things that could destroy her, including a dark addiction that Nora might not be able to shake. In the end all plans of peace are lost and the nephilim and the fallen angels must go to war.
